Void Chicken on Nostr: voynich is really interesting and probably unsolvable. because its written in a ...

voynich is really interesting and probably unsolvable. because its written in a bespoke script but also coded and written in what is almost certainly highly domain specific and compressed terms

its probably meaningful, not a pure hoax, because the stats (Zipf-like distributions, positional regularity, word-structure patterns) look a lot like natural language plus scribal habits, not random gibberish

because its likely the manual of an apothecary doing herbal baths treatments for women and the text is likely compressed jargon, even if we crack the code we still won't know what it means

think how gamers write in compressed jargon

"ML 2nd phase? dodge is vibes only man good luck" makes sense if you know terraria. otherwise its jibberish

"quiet on gengar? delete your switch, man" makes sense only if you know pokemon

and voynich is likely similar but medieval apothecary jargon